Yogakshemam 29102020
This midnight seeks to commit the third transition.
Time-energy-resource investments. Partnerships. Mentoring Leaders . Significant numbers. Significant depths.
Next 365-500 days need to –
Vulnerable and Vulnerabilities through practice leaders with these; Draft India Plan; Conversations; notes: collective action, leadership, learning, entrepreneurship/enterprises, development practice, volunteers, social responsibility, mentoring, education, health, organizations, gender, commons, EFM zones, Mobilization, Collectivization, Communitization, FNHW, Collective Enterprises, NF Scaling, LN, LEAPs, VCAs, Subsectors, Digital Platforms, et al.
We see, watch, observe. Hear, listen. Smell, touch, taste, feel. Whisper, say, talk, shout, sing. Dance, play, walk, sweat. Breathe, drink, eat. In the air, trees, water, tank, stream, sea, sky. Under the sky. Inside, outside. With light, dim light, without light. In silence. In subtle music. Read, reflect, write. Numbers, puzzles. Fight, clap, tap, whistle. Sleep, dream. Think, vision, plan, do. 10,000 hours. Hand-in-hand. Eye-in-eye. Tongue-in-cheek. Joke. Cry, tears, laugh, smile. Flow. Go, go through. Nakhasikha paryantam. Feel each cell, sikha downwards, till the nakha. Caress. Take in, on top, give out. Transform.
Raas in Brindavan. Gita in Kurukshetra. Group rule in Dwaraka. Music, Dance in Antariskh. Yoga in Ksheerasagar.
We seek greater satisfaction and happiness. Accountability. With focus, attention, prioritization and engagement. Through trust, safety feelings. Being open. With better health and wellbeing. For meaningful usefulness and significance. Stretches and challenges.
We do not seek, and we do not have to seek attention and approval, for its own sake. No gossips. No please all. No impossible promises. Not saying no. No exaggerations. No playing favourites. No play with information.
Life on planet – window can stretch, disappear if we want. Our women and men farmers can be happy and have decent incomes, livelihoods, lives and wellbeing, if we want. Our young and old. Our farming and livelihoods systems can be life-supporting for long, if we want. We can coexist, if we want. For kaivalya.
Let farmworkers, marginal and small farmers – this is 80% – prosper, achieve decent wellbeing with dignity. In this decade. Tribal, rural, urban, emerging. Let us hurry up. Slowly – farms, backyards – no chemicals, local inputs, seeds; multiple crops, poly crops; mulch – dry, wet, live; local inputs-seeds sufficiency; whole land – 365 days cover; local consumption, value-addition, short value-chains; layered crops, trees to creepers to roots; minimal-biological-no tillage; integrated farming, integrate animals into farming system; landscapes; ecosystems; portfolios of livelihoods. Towards N-living.
Quickly, let us have customized models to our farming situations. Let us have model farmers-articulators-guides. Champions. Animators. Let us have fellows. Interns. Animating facilitators. Field schools, guru classes, live models, demonstrations, exposure, group learning, school fields, e-schools, call centres, trouble shooters. Daily messages, reminders. Farm plans. Let us improve practices. Let us localize. Let us collectivize. Let us leverage the existing collectives. Let them champion. Let us have collectives emerging. Let them follow pancha-sapta-dasa sutra. Let them do collective action. For inputs, tracking, aggregating, value-chain actions. For consumption-nutrition. No wastage. Let us work with smarter entrepreneurs amongst them. For working on value-chain enterprises. Let us leverage grassroots organizations. Governments. Government on ground. Let us converge. Let us work with consumers to demand. Let us producers-consumers reach out as directly as possible. Let us have shops, stalls, hotels et al. Let us leverage local influencers. Let us use media. Digital media. Let us tap culture. Cultural forms. Literature. Sayings, stories, anecdotes, cartoons, novels, songs, folk lore, plays, videos, documents, documentaries, pictures, films, political discourse, spiritual discourse. Let us work with schools, academies, universities, institutes.
We are involved. Because we are committed. We kiss the ground. N kisses us. Trigger free. Sacred. Sutras intact. With hope, faith, promise and love intact. We give at least 10,000 hours, wholeheartedly less reactive, with will, drive, internal strength, freedom, non-boring happiness, openness, kindness. Towards ‘purity’. Daily, weekly, fortnightly.
We flow, lose ourselves in the flow, with choice, with dignity, with joy. This is the sankalp for life and destiny of useful coexistence. For 7L.
Join us in the world of yoga of useful local coexistence in N – sauchayoga for 7L.
G Muralidhar